A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor was among memorabilia from the disaster which fetched around £300,000 at auction yesterday.

Millvina Dean, 97, of Southampton, who was lowered from the deck as a two-month-old baby, put her treasured items up for sale to pay her nursing home fees.

A canvas mailbag stencilled I S New York, used to carry the family's belongings back from New York after the tragedy, and a collection of her Titanic-related photographs raised £5,000. The Titanic sank in the Atlantic in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives.